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Published by Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012
ISBN 10: 1275701051ISBN 13: 9781275701052
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 101430413XISBN 13: 9781014304131
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1600 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 506 Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013487281ISBN 13: 9781013487286
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1614 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 1214 Language: English.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015984312ISBN 13: 9781015984318
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015974341ISBN 13: 9781015974340
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, London, 1614
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 28.5 cm by 19 cm (11 3/8" tall by 71/2" wide) , Paneled calf, rebacked, l[28], 331, 330-851, 862-899, 900-918, [36] p; last page of index and errata page repaired at corner.With the bookplate and coat of arms of Edward Disbrowe Esq. / Walton Derbyshire on the front paste-down endpaper. One cover corner bumped and cracked, some wear at other corners. Light, scattered foxing. Crease on front blank. STC (2nd ed) 20506. Sabin 66679 The Second Edition, Much Enlarged with Additions Through the whole Work.
Published by Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Rose, London, England, 1614
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Leather-bound. Condition: Good. Folio, 10 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. Full contemporary paneled leather, blind stamped double fillets. Some scuffing to boards. Mild rubbing to extremities. Skilful conservation (rebacking). 5 raised bands. later red leather spine label, ruled and lettered in gilt. pp. [28], 331, 330-851, 862-889, 900-918, [36]. Errata sheet final page. Remnants of possible bookplate removed from front pastedown. Titlepage expertly mounted on laid paper, ruled in black. Bottom rule absent due to trimmed edges. Damp stain to lower outer corner, affecting pp [1]-472, although very faint after pp. 23,for the most part, affecting but not obscuring catchwords. Chip to outer edge of leaf A4 and A5 (4 in. by 1/2 in.), affecting only margins. Edges neatly trimmed close to text, nearest to signatures and catchwords. Pages lightly tanned and clean throughout. (ESTC S111828) (European Americana 614/94) (Sabin 66679). The renowned geographical compiler Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) began his illustrious career with the publication of Pvrchas his Pilgrimage, first published in 1613. Purchas meticulously compiled oral and manuscript travel accounts from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean. In this monumental work, Purchas attempts to synthesize different religions across the globe into a singular, coherent history. In effect, Purchas takes the reader on a "pilgrimage" through the world's religions. Purchase himself never travelled, but the novelty of the work lends itself to his humanist methods. John G. Demaray summarizes Purchas's scrupulous process, "Purchas called for multiple reports, reliance on concrete data, the constant publication of accumulating evidence, inductive analysis, open diversified discourse, the citation of all sources, annotations on source reliability, freedom from outside political or other pressures, and the widest possible unimpaired access to information" (From Pilgrimage to History, 102). M.G. Anne explains that Purchas absorbed "the contributions of Ralegh, Hakluyt, and Bacon to find an empirical, humanist method for writing global history.in Purchas his pilgrimage he uses rational thought to organize his sense of biblical history" (Renaissance Quarterly, 683). Second Edition, much Enlarged with Additions through the whole Worke.
Publication Date: 1600
Seller: Konstantinopel ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS., ENSCHEDE, Netherlands
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought up in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, riuers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa. Translated and collected by John Pory. [Printed by Eliot s Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600. Small Folio, 24 x 17 cm. [8], 60; 420 p. With the engraved double-page map of Africa. Complete. Binding: contemporary limp vellum, some soiling, some shrinkage, some peeling to spine. COMPLETE AND IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING This is the first English edition, of a massive work, that opened up Muslim Africa to the outside World written by a Muslim author, from which it can be said that he made an intellectual journey between Africa and Europe and a spiritual journey between Christianity and Islam. He was a diplomat, jurist, geographer, teacher, political prisoner and international celebrity, so much that he inspired Shakespeare. Leo Africanus (c. 1485 c. 1554) was born in Granada as Hassan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fassi in 1485 in Granada, after the sultans surrendered to the armies of the Reconquista, he sought refuge in Fez. He became a diplomat for the sultan of Fez, in that capacity and on occasion as a trader, he visited polities all over Morocco. By caravan he crossed the Sahara to the Land of the Black people, present day Sudan and made stops among other places at Timbuktu and Gao, where he met the great Songhay emperor Askia Muhammad, and Agadès, from which town a Tuareg elite ruled over their slaves. His duties took him on horseback from Fez to the Berber kingdoms of Tlemcen (present-day Algeria), Tunisia and on to the wonders of Cairo, where in 1517 he witnessed the fall of the Mamluk dynasty to the Ottoman emperor Selimn. He crossed the Red Sea to Arabia, made hajj, and then travelled to the Ottoman court at Istanbul. In the summer of 1518, on his way by sea from Cairo back to Morocco, his boat was seized by a Christian pirates. They realized the value of their captive. The former diplomat along with his valuable travel notes and dispatches was presented as a gift to Pope Leo X, who was then advocating for a crusade against the Ottoman Turks. Al-Wazzan was subsequently held captive at the Castel Sant Angelo, where he underwent a lengthy period of catechism under the guidance of the pope s master of ceremonies and two bishops. In a momentous event in January 1520, al-Wazzan was baptized by the pope himself and given the name Joannes Leo, or Giovanni Leone. At his desk in the Vatican library, he wrote an Arabic-Hebrew-Latin medical vocabulary, produced an Arabic translation of the Epistles of St. Paul, contributed to a Latin translation of the Qur'ān and made a biographical encyclopaedia of 25 major Islamic scholars. However, his most startling achievement was the Description of Africa of the mainly Muslim kingdoms of Africa, a geography of the continent that inspired generations of explorers and adventurers and remained the most widely published of all travel authors. It is widely believed that William Shakespeare patterned the character of Othello on Leo, whose book, translated by John Pory, was published just four years before the play s first performance in 1604. Like Leo, the Moor of Venice is an educated Muslim adventurer who travels here and everywhere before being captured by the insolent foe / And sold to slavery prior to his redemption and conversion to Christianity.
Published by London, [Eliot s Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600
Seller: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION thus. Folio, pp. [viii], 60; 420. [pi] , a-e , A-O , Q-2N . Double page engraved map. Roman letter some Italic. Woodcut printer s device on title, historiated and floriated woodcut initials, typographical ornaments, Liber Thomas Smith. pre. 5S-6D Anno Salutis 1623 at head of second leaf. Title page and verso of last a little dusty, minor marginal soiling at edges of first few leaves, quires A and M a little shorter, rare marginal stain or spot. A very good copy, the map in good dark impression, in handsome contemporary calf, covers bordered with a triple blind rule, spine with blind hatched raised bands, blind ruled in compartments, well rebacked and laid down, holes for ties, a.e.r. The first English edition, translated by John Pory, of this seminal classic of African topography and ethnography. Leo Africanus, travelling in the early C16, recorded in detail the life of many remote North African kingdoms. He was born in Granada, in the 1490s moved to Fez in Morocco where Leo served the Sultan who sent him on commercial and diplomatic missions across northern and western Africa. In 1518 he was returning from Istanbul and was captured and took to Rome. There, under the patronage of Pope Leo IX he composed the present work, first published in Italian in 1550. It was a bestseller and one of Europe s principal sources of knowledge of the Arab-African world for the next 400 years. It was translated into English in 1600 by John Pory. Pory s letter To the Reader tells the fascinating story of Leo s life a tale of complex interaction between Europe and Africa, Islam and Christianity This book was important in that it was written by a Moorish man and well regarded by scholars. However Pory is aware that some readers at this time might distrust the writings of a More and a Mahumetan (or Muslim), and he reassures them of Leo s sophistication: his Parentage, Witte, Education, Learning, Emploiments, Travels, and his conversion to Christianitie . (BL). It is likely that Shakespeare was influenced by this work in his portrayal of Othello. Pory s account of Leo s marvellous escape from so manie thousands of imminent dangers might remind us of Othello s tale of hair-breadth escapes i th immanent deadly breach . Like Leo, Othello tells of being sold to slavery and we later learn that Othello was also a former Muslim, now baptised as a Christian. In his description of African people, Leo takes pains to give a balanced perspective, though it seems nonetheless stereotyped and prejudiced. Celebrating their vertues , he says Africans are Most honest people destitute of fraud and guile . But no nation in the world is so subject to jealousie (p. 40). In the unpleasant description of their vices , he says they are very proud and high-minded, and woonderfully addicted unto wrath . They are also so credulous that they beleeve matters impossible which are told to them (p. 41) and promiscuous in wooing divers maides before settling on a wife (pp.41 42). It is hard not see these qualities reflected in Shakespeare s Othello, at least as Iago describes him. Exploiting the stereotypes that define the Moor in Venice, Iago talks of the free and open nature that makes Othello think men honest when they only seem so . He tells Roderigo he suspects the lusty Moor of sleeping with Emilia, and plans to put him into jealousy so strong that his anger will cloud his judgement. Pory s English translation (1600) was printed in the same year as the Moroccan ambassador s visit to London to negotiate a military alliance between English and African forces, with the hope of conquering Spain. In his letter to Sir Robert Cecil, Elizabeth I s secretary, Pory exploits this opportunity to market the book as particularly current, saying At this time especially I thought [it] would proove the more acceptable . (BL). ESTC S108481. STC 15481. Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated book, 1536-1603, 15481. Sabin, 40047.
Publication Date: 1600
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought up in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, rivers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings, the causes and events of their warres, with their manners, customes, religions, and civile government, and many other memorable matters: gathered partly out of his own diligent observations, and partly out of the ancient records and Chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and Iles undescribed by Iohn Leo. . Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Gonevill and Caius College in Cambridge. First edition in English. Folding engraved map. Large 8vo. Nineteenth-century calf, rebacked. One small (defunct) wormhole running through all text pages and into the rear board, rest of interior clean and fresh. [8], 60, 420pp. London, [Eliot's Court Press] Imp. Georg. Bishop, A lovely copy of one of the most significant early books on Africa. The first Italian edition (Venice, 1550) was the first European publication to provide detailed descriptions of the North African coast and parts of West-central Africa, including the then famously elusive city of Timbuktu. It is also an essential text on Islam in Africa, and one importantly written from an Islamic perspective (the author was born and undertook his travels as a Muslim). This copy has a distinguished provenance, having formerly belonged to Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), who was born in Addis Ababa, and whose decade-long exploration of the Empty Quarter (Rub? al Khali) is recounted in his 1959 classic, Arabian Sands. Leo Africanus (c.1485-c.1554), whose Arabic name was al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, was born in Granada and educated at Fez. He travelled extensively in northern Africa before being captured by Christian pirates on his return from an ascent of the Nile to Aswan. The pirates, impressed with his intelligence, presented him as a gift to Pope Leo X who persuaded him to convert and stood sponsor at his baptism in 1520 when he took the name Giovanni Leone. He subsequently returned to Africa and died at Tunis. After leaving Cambridge the translator John Pory (1570?-1635) became an assistant to the travel writer Richard Hakluyt who encouraged him to produce this work which is dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil and contains 60 pages of additional material consisting of a general description of Africa and of places undescribed by Leo. He later became M.P. for Bridgwater (1605) and travelled extensively in Europe as far as Constantinople and visited Virginia in 1619-21 and 1623-24. Originally published in 1550 by Ramusio in Italian, this text subsequently became the basis of all future translations. Pory's translation was a ?major landmark in the spread of knowledge of Africa in England? (Eldred Jones), and the book remained a standard work of reference until the nineteenth century. It is credited by the OED with the first use of the words hippopotamus and zebra in the English language; and literary scholars engaged on the never-ending quest for Shakespearian source-books have suggested that it may have been one of the sources for Othello. Although the evidence is only circumstantial, it is entirely possible that Pory's description of the Moors as credulous, violent and jealous (?whomsoever they finde but talking with their wives they presently go about to murther them?) may have influenced Shakespeare. Ben Jonson certainly knew the work, as he cites ?Leo the African? in the notes to his Masque of Blackness (1605). Provenance: armorial bookplate of the Hon. Charles Howard, the ?Gift of Rt. Hon Sir David Dundas of Ochtertyre 1877?, thence in the library of the Earls of Carlisle; cartographical Reynolds Stone bookplate Wilfred Thesiger. See: Jones (Eldred), Othello's Countrymen: the African in English Renaissance Drama, 1965; Powell (W. S.), John Pory, 1572-1636: the life and letters of a man of many parts, 1977; STC, 15481.